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Tossing out junk at the county’s highway facility will soon no longer be free.
By a 5-2 vote, the Anderson County Fiscal Court approved last Tuesday charging 5 cents per pound ($100 a ton) for items thrown into its compactor. That includes throwing away yard debris as well as regular household trash.
Disposal of recyclables will remain free.
The decision includes purchasing a set of scales for around $55,000, along with hiring a full-time employee at an estimated $30,000 a year to collect fees.

Members of Lawrenceburg Boy Scout Troop 37 will celebrate Flag Day on Friday by retiring worn, torn or otherwise no longer serviceable US flags in a ceremony at the Veterans’ Wall of Honor on Broadway, the troop announced.
The ceremony will begin at 7 p.m. and all are welcome.
The ceremony marks the 97th anniversary of President Woodrow Wilson’s proclamation of a national Flag Day. The troop invites those interested to bring their worn flags to be included in the retirement ceremony. Those with flags to be retired should arrive 30 minutes early.

The city council unanimously approved the second reading of its $3.559 million budget for the upcoming fiscal year, including a 1.74 percent salary increase for mayor, city council and all city employees.
The council approved the first reading of the 2013-2014 budget during its May meeting.
All six council members were present during Monday night’s meeting.

Lawrenceburg police officer Sean Wells has organized a fundraiser to help the family of a Bardstown police officer murdered last month.
Wells and fellow officers will wait tables Wednesday, June 19 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Edwardo’s Pizza, located on Glensboro Road, with a portion of the proceeds and all of the tips collected going to office Jason Ellis’ family.
Ellis was ambushed and murdered May 25 while removing debris off an exit on the Bluegrass Parkway.

If a tornado tore through the industrial park glass pile at Dlubak Glass Co., operations manager Tim Hostetler said, it’d be a disaster.
It’d also be a disaster if a tornado came through Lawrenceburg and picked up rocks, cars or trees, he said.
“If a natural disaster happens, it happens,” Hostetler said. “Look at Oklahoma — you get a 2-mile wide tornado, it’s going to tear up everything.”

This house would be their home.
But there’s one thing about it you may not like, the late Jackie Benningfield told his wife Betty Benningfield in the early ‘70s.
Someone buried dead people in their new backyard.
Embraced by a 200-year-old stone fence, the Bell-Carpenter graveyard rests a few feet away from the intersection of Carlton and Maple Drive.

Joyce Sims came home from church June 2 and immediately called Lawrenceburg police.
Someone had stolen her tree peony.
The tree is not her favorite planting in Sims’ meticulously landscaped backyard at 617 Nickelbie Drive. Sims prefers Crepe Myrtle trees or calla lilies to a tree peony or “peony tree” as she referred to the perennial.
But the tree peony’s maroon-and-white flowers bloom for only a few short weeks in spring, Sims said, and then they’re gone until next year.

A Lawrenceburg man is scheduled to return to court later this month after being charged with second-degree cruelty to animals, according to documents on file in Anderson District Court.
Ronald Stella, 59, of 1125 Tara Way, has already entered a plea of not guilty and is scheduled to appear at 9 a.m. June 19 for a pre-trial conference.
Stella is charged with shooting a neighbor’s dog, a boxer named Rocco, in an incident last September.

The site-based decision-making council at Anderson County High School is seeking to gather as much input as possible by inviting students, parents, staff and community members to complete an online survey to provide input to the council, according to a press release.

The survey can be accessed at www.acschools.net and will close at midnight on June 10.

The Anderson County sheriff’s office held its annual DARE fishing derby last Saturday, giving families living in and out of Anderson County the opportunity to have fun fishing while interacting and communicating with each other.
“It’s always been a great event and the kids have fun doing it,” Lawrenceburg native Tyler Moore, who brought his four children to the derby, said.